Now working full time for the NIH as a researcher/historian, 7/07. Kim Pelis is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

Kim Pelis has written a magesterial biography of Charles Nicolle, the Nobel prize-winning microbiologist who demonstrated the louse-borne transmission of one of humankind's most dreaded scourges: typhus fever. But this beautifully written book covers so much more than Nicolle's exemplary scientific life. Indeed, it is a superb and scholarly exploration of late nineteenth and early twentieth century medicine, colonialism, international public health, and the social and cultural history of disease. --

• Prelude: The Substance of ShadowsIntroduction: The Door of the SadikiStaring at the Sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of TunisThe Threshold of Civilization: Typhus in TunisiaLight & Shadow: Lousy War and Fractured PeaceAlliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"?Invisible Forces: or, Action at a DistanceReservoir Docs: Birth, Life, and Death of Infectious DiseaseMosaics of Power: Confronting ParisAt Home with My Shadows: Patrie de Nomade

Now working full time for the NIH as a researcher/historian, 7/07. Kim Pelis is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

Kim Pelis has written a magesterial biography of Charles Nicolle, the Nobel prize-winning microbiologist who demonstrated the louse-borne transmission of one of humankind's most dreaded scourges: typhus fever. But this beautifully written book covers so much more than Nicolle's exemplary scientific life. Indeed, it is a superb and scholarly exploration of late nineteenth and early twentieth century medicine, colonialism, international public health, and the social and cultural history of disease. --

• Prelude: The Substance of ShadowsIntroduction: The Door of the SadikiStaring at the Sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of TunisThe Threshold of Civilization: Typhus in TunisiaLight & Shadow: Lousy War and Fractured PeaceAlliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"?Invisible Forces: or, Action at a DistanceReservoir Docs: Birth, Life, and Death of Infectious DiseaseMosaics of Power: Confronting ParisAt Home with My Shadows: Patrie de Nomade

Now working full time for the NIH as a researcher/historian, 7/07. Kim Pelis is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

Kim Pelis has written a magesterial biography of Charles Nicolle, the Nobel prize-winning microbiologist who demonstrated the louse-borne transmission of one of humankind's most dreaded scourges: typhus fever. But this beautifully written book covers so much more than Nicolle's exemplary scientific life. Indeed, it is a superb and scholarly exploration of late nineteenth and early twentieth century medicine, colonialism, international public health, and the social and cultural history of disease. --

• Prelude: The Substance of ShadowsIntroduction: The Door of the SadikiStaring at the Sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of TunisThe Threshold of Civilization: Typhus in TunisiaLight & Shadow: Lousy War and Fractured PeaceAlliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"?Invisible Forces: or, Action at a DistanceReservoir Docs: Birth, Life, and Death of Infectious DiseaseMosaics of Power: Confronting ParisAt Home with My Shadows: Patrie de Nomade